{"product_id":"book-bvfu","title":"The Ballad of Black Tom","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeople move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles  Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his  father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows  what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide,  and the curse written on his black skin that attracts the eye of wealthy  white folks and their trained cops. But when he delivers an occult page  to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a  deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left  sleeping.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the power to summon the Old Ones, and creates genuine chills with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King, an echo of Lovecraft’s Dagon… [\u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Black Tom\u003c\/i\u003e] has a satisfying slingshot ending.” – Elizabeth Hand for \u003ci\u003eFantasy \u0026amp; ScienceFiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[LaValle]  reinvents outmoded literary conventions, particularly the  ghettos of  genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from  popular  fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Devil in Silver\u003c\/i\u003e from Elizabeth Hand, author of \u003ci\u003eRadiant Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49386248896816,"sku":"BDbvfu","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/135443-bvfu-Square.jpg?v=1735160127","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bvfu","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}